“The public market, in the town of Yuriage about 250 kilometres north of Tokyo, was built using wood donated by Canadian lumber companies”
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Canadian+wood+expertise+aids+Japan+tsunami+reconstruction/8336296/story.html#ixzz2Vb0wrMIT
Urban Tree in Pittsburg takes donated trees and turns them into furniture in-house. I often dreamed of doing this in New York.
Article: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/life/home/architect-turned-woodworker-turns-reclaimed-wood-into-furniture-686247/
“BIOMASS, is scheduled to launch in 2020 and will produce the first accurate maps of tropical, temperate and boreal forest biomass from space” (Harriet Jarlett).
Article: http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=1450&cookieConsent=A
Wooden Nintendo
Link: http://www.neatorama.com/neatogeek/2010/07/19/wooden-nintendo-sculpture/
(Source: asylumseaker)
Chairs by Annie Evelyn
Traditional upholstery techniques but unconventional upholstery materials, creating soft surfaces with hard materials.
